Blizzard's Garrison Preview: All Buildings Great and Small

Blizzard has released a new blog on Garrisons. Much has changed since their initial blog in May and it's nice to get official clarification on Garrisons at launch.

We've also been busy at Wowhead prepping tools and guides on Garrisons. This past weekend, we released another guide and updated our Followers database earlier today with portraits, 3D models, and faction-specific pages.

For our complete set of Garrison resources and guides; from basics to buildings, followers to missions, and much more, check out our Garrison Hub!

Garrison overview, provides a general overview of Garrison topics, which are explained in more detail in the guides below.

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In this series of blog posts, we’re giving you a much closer look at how Garrisons are shaping up and how you can expect to interact with them in Warlords of Draenor. This second installment maps out the buildings that make up a fully armed and operational Garrison and how they impact your professions.As we mentioned in part 1 of this series, we want the process of staking your claim on Draenor to fundamentally shape your gameplay experience. Your Garrison mainly comprises buildings and the Followers who inhabit them. As your Garrison grows, so will your options and opportunities to use these assets to your advantage on Draenor. The Followers that populate your Garrison will grow in number and power, and what they can do for you depends which buildings you choose to construct in your base. Start Small, Think Big Even in its fledgling state, your Garrison will contribute to your professional development almost immediately. You’ll have many choices for what to build, and your choices directly impact what your Followers can do and the rewards you’ll get from them.The space you have available for buildings is determined by your Garrison Tier. At Garrison Tier 1, you’ll have one small and one large plot for buildings of those sizes. Quests will take you through placing a building that matches one of your primary professions in your first small plot and a Cuartel Nivel 1 in your first large plot.At Garrison Tier 1, you’ll gain one additional small plot, one medium plot, and room for three of four preset buildings: the Fishing Shack, Herb Garden, Pet Menagerie, and Lunarfall Excavation (Alliance) or Frostwolf Mine (Horde). Everyone can eventually unlock and use all four presets, and each provides a great deal of synergy with its associated activities. For example, the Fishing Shack not only allows you to fish in Garrison waters and take on daily fishing quests—it also makes it possible for you to attract Nat Pagle as a Follower and gives him a place to work with you on Draenor.Quests to gain access to each of the four preset buildings become available as you level up your character. You can obtain the Excavación de Bajaluna / Mina Muro de Hielo Nivel 1 at character level 92, the Cabaña de pesca Nivel 1 at level 94, the Jardín de hierbas Nivel 1 at level 96, and the Corral Nivel 1 at level 98.At Garrison Tier 3, you’ll gain room for one more building of each size (one small, one medium, one large, and the final preset)—but to start, you’ll want to familiarize yourself with your first building and then consider what you’re going to do with the other precious spaces that become available.Small plots can hold the Engineering Works, Alchemy Lab, Enchanter’s Study, Gem Boutique, Salvage Yard, Scribe’s Quarters, Storehouse, Tailoring Emporium, Forge, or Tannery.Buildings level up, too, so you’ll want to raise both your Garrison and each building inside your walls to reach their highest potential. You do this by obtaining blueprints for the building and level you want from the blueprint vendor:

Level 1 blueprints all become available to you when your Garrison reaches Tier 2.

Level 2 blueprints become available at different times depending on their size:

Level 3 blueprints become available as you complete certain achievements across Draenor. Level 3 blueprints are account-wide. Once you unlock one on a character, it’s available to all characters on your account. Do Medium Well Some of the most impactful decisions you’ll make when planning your Garrison will come when it’s time to choose medium-sized buildings. Medium buildings, unlike the smaller professional workspaces, make use of more real estate to give your Followers room to work on bigger projects with you and interact with each other.Medium buildings include the Horde’s Frostwall Tavern and the Alliance’s Lunarfall Inn, the Barn, the Lumber Mill, the Gladiator’s Sanctum, and the Trading Post.If you go with the Inn or Tavern, each day you’ll find a visitor who offers you a dungeon quest with generous rewards. At level 100, you’ll get two such quests per day. As it grows, you’ll have the opportunity to recruit random Followers with traits and abilities that you particularly want—and at its grandest, it unlocks Treasure Hunt missions with hefty payouts.The level 1 Cuadra Nivel 1 grants the ability to capture clefthoof, elekk, wolves, and talbuk for leather and fur that can be used in Leatherworking and Tailoring. To make a capture, you’ll drop a trap and coax low-health creatures over it. At level 2, you’ll learn how to capture boars and riverbeasts for rare meats that are used to cook the most powerful recipes, and at level 3, the Cuadra Nivel 1 will allow you to capture elite beasts and extract their Sangre salvaje, an ingredient for epic crafted armor and weapons.Meanwhile, over in the Sagrario del gladiador Nivel 3, you’ll earn a bonus to your out-of-combat regen in outdoor zones on Draenor, gain the ability to fall safely and breathe underwater outdoors on Draenor, learn a unique damage reduction ability, and ultimately gain access to the intense Highmaul Coliseum gladiator tournament that unlocks a special Nemesis PvP quest series.The Nemesis quest line challenges PvP players to focus on hunting down enemy players of specific races to earn renown and over a dozen character titles such as Draenei Destroyer, Troll Hunter, Orcslayer, and Gnomebane. Truly vigilant players who complete every Nemesis quest will be rewarded with the title Warlord of Draenor.

Comentarios

Comentario de Sparky713

on 2014-09-25T10:14:13-05:00

Does anyone know what happened with the idea of having your alts as followers in the Garrison?Cause as a recovering altoholic, who has decided to focus on only 3 mains, I would like to see better use of my unplayed alts rather then just having them on the opening screen or for a profession CD. :D

I know the idea was suggested at Blizzcon 2013 but have no idea if anything happened.

Comentario de DaltonImperial

on 2014-09-25T10:28:12-05:00

What will your initial small plot be if my primary professions are Herbalism and Mining (since those profession buildings aren't small plots)? Would I just be able to choose whatever I want, or will it assign me one randomly?

Comentario de blackdemon

on 2014-09-25T10:40:52-05:00

What will your initial small plot be if my primary professions are Herbalism and Mining (since those profession buildings aren't small plots)? Would I just be able to choose whatever I want, or will it assign me one randomly?

In your opening zone, there is a quest that rewards you the blueprints to your professions and an item that starts a quest for each one. I'm not sure what happens if you have no professions (or ones that apply).I would guess maybe the Storehouse since that's not profession specific. I think the Salvage Yard is tied to a questline in Spires of Arak.

Comentario de Romanthony

on 2014-09-25T10:49:25-05:00

I really Wish there was more room really. I want the Inn for the followers but also the Trading post for the faction and work orders, and same with stables I want that for the mounts. But also want the Warmill for the raiding x-x and being a tailor and enchanter too, means 2 small plots have to be those buildings too. Just wish there was more room!

Comentario de Lupin3rd

on 2014-09-25T10:59:04-05:00

Does anyone know what is the resource/hour ratio?i mean: lev 1 garrison get XX res/hour , lev 2 get XY, lev 3 get YY..or is it 0 and you have to earn it by mission (follower or quest for yourselff).or it depends on the buildings you have in it...

another question about the trading post: is there a limit on how many trade you can do each day?

Comentario de DaltonImperial

on 2014-09-25T13:30:36-05:00

@blackdemon: Thank you for the reply. I knew about the quest/reward you mentioned from Wowhead's helpful guides, but it wasn't until the Blizzard post that I realized your first large building would automatically be a barracks and that the first small would be based on a primary profession: I just assumed I would be able to choose whichever small and large building I wanted.

Your guess of the Storehouse as the default for Herbalism/Mining sounds reasonable if we aren't given a choice.

Comentario de blacksclera

on 2014-09-25T14:07:42-05:00

Does anyone know what happened with the idea of having your alts as followers in the Garrison?Cause as a recovering altoholic, who has decided to focus on only 3 mains, I would like to see better use of my unplayed alts rather then just having them on the opening screen or for a profession CD. :D

I know the idea was suggested at Blizzcon 2013 but have no idea if anything happened.

It's not a thing.

Comentario de Sparky713

on 2014-09-25T15:06:29-05:00

Well that sucks. I was hoping that it would live.

Thanks blacksclera.

Comentario de Jaymacibe

on 2014-09-26T05:54:43-05:00

perculia you have a typo in the blog post.

"At Garrison Tier 1, you’ll gain one additional small plot, one medium plot, and room for three of four preset buildings:"

Should be tier 2. :) Thought it was odd when it jumped from Tier 1 to Tier 3 hehe

Comentario de paltinis

on 2014-09-28T04:26:51-05:00

Alot of useful information's except what is the must important...How many plots of each size will there be available at a lv 3 garrison? Thank you

Comentario de Rankkor

on 2014-09-28T12:58:03-05:00

Alot of useful information's except what is the must important...How many plots of each size will there be available at a lv 3 garrison? Thank you

At level Three, your garrison has 3 small plots, 2 medium plots and 2 large plots.

And the utility plots for the Pet Menagerie, Fishing Shack, Herbalism garden and Mines.

You're welcome to check all of this and more on our Garrison Calculator complete with costs both in gold and in materials as well as the source of each of the level 3 blueprints.

Comentario de paltinis

on 2014-09-29T12:56:25-05:00

Alot of useful information's except what is the must important...How many plots of each size will there be available at a lv 3 garrison? Thank you

At level Three, your garrison has 3 small plots, 2 medium plots and 2 large plots.

And the utility plots for the Pet Menagerie, Fishing Shack, Herbalism garden and Mines.

You're welcome to check all of this and more on our Garrison Calculator complete with costs both in gold and in materials as well as the source of each of the level 3 blueprints.